‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Reportedly in Development for 2018

It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly Downton Abbey transitioned from water-cooler drama to gilded afterthought, but we didn’t have to wait long to revisit the Crawley family. NBCUniversal bosses claim Downton Abbey is gearing up for a movie, which might shoot as early as 2018.

Even as the period drama ended its run in only March of 2016, NBCUniversal International Studios president Michael Edelstein told the Associated Press at Singapore’s Downton Abbey: The Exhibition (h/t TVLine) that “There’s a movie in the works. It’s been in the works for some time. We are working on getting the script right, and then we’ve got to figure out how to get the [cast] together. … But we’re hopeful to make a movie sometime next year.”